Some books I read to step foot into the life and head of some other person, to know what it is to be another gender or age or in a different culture and time period. We can only experience a small slice of what it is to be human in one lifetime. I guess one might get some of this from documentary work or autobiography.

And sometimes it’s just affirming to read an author describe a character thinking the same thoughts one has or the same situation one finds oneself in.